Earlier this spring, the AI company Anthropic published an unusual confession. Its researchers studied a million conversations with the company’s assistant, Claude, hunting for the places where the model tells people what they want to hear rather than what’s true — a failure they call “sycophancy.” Most of the time, the AI behaved. But there was one domain where flattery spiked above all the others: “spirituality.”
In conversations about faith, the future, and meaning in life, the model slipped into telling people what they wanted to hear roughly 38% of the time — about four times its average. The report’s appendix is candid about what that looks like in practice. The two most common cases were astrological readings and divination — where the model, in the researchers’ own phrase, ends up “playing the character of fortune teller.”
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What Determines Whether Children Stay Religious as Adults? — June 4: New research found that into adulthood. Children who attended church weekly were more than twice as likely to attend as young adult. When they attended with both parents, the likelihood rose to 41%, compared with 29% when only one parent attended. Children from families that prayed together and said grace before meals were also much more likely to persist in their faith. (New York Post)
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Philippine Evangelicals Sign Covenant to Keep Gospel Above Politics — June 3: , pledging to keep Christ-centered discipleship above partisan politics and to preserve fellowship despite differing political views. Citing Jesus’ prayer in that believers “may all be one,” the covenant affirms that Christian unity does not require uniformity of opinion, but calls on church leaders to avoid slander and engage in respectful dialogue rooted in biblical principles. (Christian Daily)
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Wycliffe Celebrates 800th Language With Full Bible Translation — June 3: Wycliffe Bible Translators is celebrating the . The milestone marks "exponential" growth: from 50 languages in the early 1800s to 100 by the late 1800s, 200 by 1950, 400 by 1998, and now 800. Wycliffe said 500 million people have gained access to the Bible in their mother tongue over the last five years. Even so, around 6,600 languages — 1.5 billion people — do not yet have a complete Bible. (Christian Today)
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Although reading the Bible in its traditional thematic organization is by far the most common way to read it — for the obvious reason that it’s the order the church first established some 1600 years ago — it has also become popular in recent times to read the Bible chronologically, in the order the events happened.
I myself have read the Bible this way, and although it can be a little tricky to figure out (as I’ll explain below), it is a great way to more fully immerse yourself in the complete storyline of Scripture.
This article will help you organize the books of the Bible into a chronological reading plan.
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Although there’s no wrong way to read the Bible, by far the two most common ways to read the books of the Bible in order are thematically and chronologically.
Thematic (or canonical) order is the most straightforward: this is how most Bibles are (and always have been) organized. However, the order differs slightly between traditions, at least when you add in the Apocryphal/Deuterocanonical books included in Catholic and Orthodox Bibles.
This article will walk you through the list of every book of the Bible in order according to traditional canon — including the Apocrypha (clearly marked from the rest).
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In this six-session video Bible study (video streaming code included), Jennie Allen defines the three core lies that distort our identities and influence our decisions—and shows you how to dismantle them.
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